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homeini. Why has the Arab awakening produced so few new leaders? Partly because the electoral process is still playing out in places like Egypt and Yemen, and partly because it hasn't even begun in places like Libya and Syria. But these are technical explanations. There are deeper factors at work. O

d only a minority of seats in Parliament, had effectively been left powerless. Will the rest of Egypt's protesters end up in the same predicament? Anicic 3. The Washington Post EFTA00647761 Syrian cease-fire violations deepen gloom over options for ousting Assad Joby Warrick May 6 -- Western hope

hom? The obvious answer is Iran, Saudi's great regional rival, or one of the three states that the Saudis are most concerned about — Syria, Iraq or Yemen. And it will not have escaped Tehran's notice that the CSS-2 ballistic missiles that Riyadh paraded for the first time last week can easily reach

the author of Sharpening Strategic Intelligence: Why the CIA Gets It Wrong and What Needs to Be Done to Get It Right (Cambridge University Press). Anicic 3. Project Syndicate The Post-National Mirage Shlomo Ben Ami May 5, 2014 -- The German philosopher Jurgen Habermas once defined our times as "the

ranged from indifference to accommodation. The Saudis see Iran trying to encircle them with its Quds Force active in Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and their own eastern province. The Saudis see an Iranian effort to shift the balance of forces in the region dramatically in Tehran's favor, wheth

las Saidel, JD, MA, is the Associate Director of the Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis & Response (ISTAR) at the University of Pennsylvania. Anicic 3. American Prospect Disrespecting Your Defender Gershom Gorenberg March 24, 2014 -- Moshe Ya'alon thinks that President Barack Obama is a wimp a

f failed states and intervention in them by international organizations to prevent them turning into breeding grounds for terrorism as Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan did. Given Russia's domestic terror problems, amply publicized at the recent winter Olympics, it should be possible to deal wit

ng for the Muslim world even to achieve our unsatisfactory levels of responsible public policy could be a very protracted and frustrating process. Anicic 3. NYT America's Last Task in Kabul Vali R. Nasr April 18, 2014 -- Until now, fighting the Afghan war has been an American project, and Americans

012 -- The remarkable uprisings across the Arab world in the past 16 months have ousted or imperiled leaders in several countries, including Egypt, Yemen, and Syria. None of these movements, however, has been successful in its goal of creating a new political system let alone a democratic one. Old ru

on Foreign Relations and the author of the forthcoming "Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient limes to the Present." Anicic 3. Foreign Policy The Real Reason to Arvoi e in Syria James P. Rubin JUNE 4, 2012 - We're not done with the possibility of an Israeli strike on Ir